A VOB is a file storage container in DVD-Video media that contains actual movie from a DVD, but it is not a common format to be played on MacOS natively. And even some media players and mobile devices may unable to play VOB files normally. Most people have difficulties to play VOB files properly. So how about you? How do you play VOB files on your Mac computer?
In this article, we will mainly learn about how to play VOB files on Mac with lossless quality. And we will also learn how to play VOB files on Android devices. If you have interests, please follow me to search more information.
Outline of contents
VOB is the abbreviation of video object, which is a composite format to store DVD video files. It includes abundant formats such as digital video and audio, subtitles, DVD menus, and navigation contents. As files in VOB format can be encrypted and protected, causing they are hard to play on Mac directly because they are not compatible to native media systems or devices.
Therefore, many converters are created to covert VOB files to a more common and friendly formats for users. And people may turn to ask whether QuickTime , the most popular multimedia player, can play VOB files on Mac directly?
As we all know, QuickTime is an outstanding multimedia player developed by Apple and is good at dealing with a wide range of digital video, audio, picture and panoramic images. Plus with its simplicity interface, ease of use, excellent video quality, advanced compression technology and splendid features have gained people’s affection. However, it has weak support for some common file formats such as AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, etc, let alone VOB files.
To be honest, if you purchased the $20Mpge-2 Playback component from Apple and haven’t upgraded to Catalina, you are still allowed to turn VOB files to MPEG-4 with QT7 Pro to play VOB files. However, Apple stops in-depth development on QT7 Pro now, the current QuickTime can’t support to open VOB files on Mac.
Don’t worry! There are still plenty of excellent software on the world that are intended to play VOB files on Mac directly. Here we will introduce some useful third-party applications or software for you to sweep out the problem from VOB files.
Cisdem Video Player features a practical and convenient design for opening VOB files and almost other formats. It gives you an outstanding movies experience with stunning image and high audio quality. In addition, it allows you to choose subtitles, take screenshots and let you experience a full control over video playback. Most importantly, Cisdem Video Player supports almost all video and audio formats and you don’t have to find other applications, such as MP4, H.264/MP4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, AVI, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, M4V, TS, DIVX, MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, TTA, etc.
1. Please download and install Cisdem Video Player from its website.
2. Add the VOB files to your playlist. There are 4 ways for your reference:
VLC media player is one of popular VOB players for widely used in all platforms. It’s a free media media that supports to play various video and audio formats, including playing VOB files on mac directly. It owns a simple interface and easily gets in use. When you play a VOB files format video via it, you can adjust playback speed, take screenshots and synchronize the audio and video. In addition, it can also convert videos into other formats.
However, it was created for video but for music, so it’s difficult for you to find a song from your library. And if you reopen VLC , the window won’t get back to the original width or place you had set. But it still is a useful application to open a VOB files video as a free media.
UMPlayer is also a free media player to support many major video and audio formats, and VOB files is exactly included. It has a clean interface, easy to use, support subtitles and multiple app skin for your choice. In addition, the incomplete or damaged files are also can be played through it.
However, as it stops upgrading, it could not operate normally in all new platforms or if you upgraded it. Sometimes it struggles to read and play some VOB files properly.
Meantime, countless people in globe can’t leave without a smartphone and most of them use it to watch all-assorted videos for fun. However, because Android devices couldn’t play some advanced or complicated video formats such as VOB , most Android users have difficulties in opening VOB files fluently. From this point, numerous converters for Android users are pervasive in the market. Similarly, I will directly show you some useful converters on how to play VOB files on Android phones, managing to let you could enjoy a wonderful experience.
VLC is also could used for Android devices, which is a free and open-source media player. It supports almost all player formats with specialized features and simple surface, especially for opening VOB files, grasping a lot of user’s preference.
VOB Video Player for Android is a pretty simple and helpful player to use. It gives basic and useful features for users to play many video formats such as VOB, 3GP, 3G2, AMV, ASF, AVI, DivX, FLV, etc. When you apply it for opening a vob file video, you will notice that this player focuses on automatically loading design and won’t waste our time for wait. Plus, it doesn’t need any extra plugins.
BS Player is a superb VOB player for Android to open VOB files too. With advanced hardware acceleration technology, BS Player provides his users with extreme smooth playback experience. And it also offers two versions to users. One is free and the other one needs to pay for some money for ad-free or other features. But if you only use it to play VOB videos, the free version is enough to meet all you requirements.
People tend to see videos on imovie or FCP, if you want to edit VOB files on mac through them, it will also be a solution. But the result is disappointing. By doing so, the memory will be quite large as they don’t support the function of cutting down the video size when they do the work. Besides, because of the limitation system of the VOB files, the size of VOB files are usually less than 1GB. If you use them to play VOB files on Mac directly, you will get several small pieces of videos.
Therefore, we suggest that you could convert VOB files to other more commonly seen formats to play VOB video format. Hence, you will get a complete video as the previous VOB file while the memory only occupies a little space of you computer or other devices, and the converted videos could be stored to play permanently and repeatedly. You can even transfer the converted videos to other media players to play, including imovie and FCP.
Actually, there also are a great deal of converter applications in the market produced to convert VOB files into a more compatible format to play, such as Video Converter for Mac, MPEG Streamclip, etc. Besides, Cisdem Video Player can also be used as a converter that could convert VOB files to desirable formats for different devices, such as MOV, AVI, MP3, M4A, iPhone, iPad, Android Phones, etc. One needs to known is that it’s completely free for Cisdem Video Player to play VOB files, but it requires to pay $9.99 for converting. In my point of view, it’s acceptable because of its vivid screen, fast converting speed and other powerful features.
Here, I will mainly introduce the method of Cisdem Video Player on how to edit VOB files on Mac.
I do hope you will find an appropriate way to open VOB files on Mac or on other devices after reading this article. And I really recommend Cisdem video player as your first pick because it not only could support play VOB files on Mac directly, but also could used as a third party converter to converted into many formats for different devices. Most importantly, this QuickTime alternative is easy to use and causes no damage to the video quality when you use it to play VOB files on Mac. If you are finding a third-party application to open VOB files on Mac, I promise that Cisdem Video Player won’t let you down and will pay back you with a splendid visual experience.
Jenny is a technology editor who has been blogging since she was a student. Since joining Cisdem, she focuses on writing articles about video software and how-to guides. She loves exploring new tools and techniques.
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